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Ohio
This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Ohio. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the Northwest Territory period through statehood to the present.
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Item type:Item, Massillon Rev. Ordinances, at 50-51, ch. 10, §§ 129-130 (1880).(1880)That whoever carries any pistol, bowie knife, dirk, or other dangerous weapon, concealed on or about his person, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, and for a second offense, fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than three months, or both.Item type:Item, Ordinances of the City of Sandusky, Ohio, at 131-32, Shooting Within Certain Limits, An Ordinance to provide for the punishment of certain offences named therein, §§ 1-2 (1887)(1884)That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to fire or discharge any gun, cannon or other fire arm, within the following limits of said city, to-witItem type:Item, Ordinances of the City of Cleveland, at 136-37, ch. 33, §§ 417-423 (1890).(1890)No person shall fire any cannon, gun, rifle, pistol, toy pistol or firearms of any kind, or fire or explode any squib, rocket, cracker or Roman candle or other combustible fireworks or make use of any sling within the city. Sec. 421. Any person who shall intentionally, without malice, point or aim any firearm at or toward any other person, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars.Item type:Item, Annual Reports of the Various Departments of the City of Columbus, Together with a Financial Statement of the Receipts and Disbursements for the Year Ending December 31, 1893, at 16-20, Ordinance No. 8191-Making Certain Offenses Therein Named Misdemeanors, § 9-Concealed Weapons & § 25-Firearms, Firecrackers, Etc. Passed January 22, 1894.(1894)Whoever shall wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol or revolver, colt, billy, slungshot, brass knuckles or knuckles of lead, dirk, dagger or any knife resembing a bowie knife or any other dangerous or deadly weapon within the corporate limits of the city of Columbus, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars for each and every offense, SEC. 25. Whoever shall throw, cast or let off any skyrocket, squib, cracker, firework or other thing charged with gunpowder; or discharge any common gun or pistol in this city, without a written permit from the mayor, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanorItem type:Item, 1880 Ohio Rev. Stat. 1655, tit. 1, ch. 8, § 7007 (vol. 2, 1879)(1880)Whoever plays bullets along or across any street, in any municipal corporation, or runs any horse, shoots or fires any gun or pistol at a target, within the limits of any municipal corporation, shall be fined not more than fifty nor less than five dollars.]Item type:Item, 1883 Ohio Gen. and Local Laws 222, An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Toy Pistols in the State of Ohio, § 1 (vol. 80)(1883)That it shall be unlawful for any firm, company or person in the state of Ohio, to sell or exhibit for sale any pistol manufactured out of any metallic or hard substance, commonly known as the "toy pistol"; to a minor under the age of fourteen years; any firm company or person violating the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, or be imprisoned not less than ten days nor more than twenty days, or both, and shall be liable to a civil action in damages ot any person injured by such sale.Item type:Item, 1889 Ohio Gen. and Local Laws 164, An Act to Amend Section 2669 of the Revised Statutes, as Amended April 22, 1885, § 1 (vol. 84)(1889)The council of the city or village may provide by ordinance for licensing all exhibiters of shows or performances of any kind, not prohibited by law, hawkers, peddlers, auctioneers of horses and other animals on the highways or public grounds of the corporation, venders [sic] of gun powder and other explosives, taverns and houses of public entertainment, and hucksters in the public streets or markets, and in granting such license, may extract and receive such sum of money as it may think reasonable[.]Item type:Item, 1894 Ohio Gen. and Local Laws 86-87, An Act to Prevent the Use of Air Guns or Other Arms or Implements by Which Hard or Dangerous Substance Is Shot, Forced or Thrown, § 1 (vol. 91)(1894)[I]t shall be unlawful for any person to shoot, force or throw, by the means of any air-gun or other arm or implement of any kind, and lead, iron or other hard substance upon any of the streets, alleys, lanes or public places within the state of Ohio, any person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in any sum not more than twenty-five dollars nor less the one dollarItem type:Item, Ordinances of the City of Cleveland, at 231, ch. 51, § 683 (1890)(1890)It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to engage in sporting, rioting, quarreling, shooting or other disturbances within the city on Sunday; Provided, that this section shall not be construed as referring to baseball games in inclosed grounds, or in unoccupied parts of the city, by permission of the owner of the grounds."Item type:Item, 1884 Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the State of Ohio, at 633, Licenses, § 24(1884)All vendors of gunpowder shall pay a license fee of fifteen (15) dollars per annum. All keepers or owners of gunpowder magazines shall pay a license fee of one hundred (100) dollars per annum.Item type:Item, 1886 Gen and Local Acts of the State of Ohio 100, ch. 4, § 3079 (vol. 83)(1886)if any person shall temporarily erect any stand, booth, or other structure for the purpose of exposing for sale, giving, bartering, or otherwise dispose of any spirituous or other intoxicating liquors whatsoever, at or within a distance of one mile from any such parade or encampment, he may be put immediately under guard, and kept at the discretion of the commanding officer, and such commanding officer may turn over such person to any police officer or constable of the city, township or town wherein such duty, parade or drill, encampment or meeting is held, for examination or trial before any court of justice having jurisdiction of the place."Item type:Item, 1880 Ohio Rev. Stat. 1633, tit. 1, ch. 5, § 6892 (vol. 2, 1879)(1880)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any pistol, Bowie knife, dirk, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by a fine of up to $200 or imprisonment for up to 30 days for the first offense, and a fine of up to $500 or imprisonment for up to 3 months for the second offense.